How the IDF Stopped Hamas from Establishing a New Foothold in the West Bank
The terrorist revival crosses from Samaria to Judea.
February 9, 2023
The Prophetic Task of the Jewish Writer in the 21st Century
“They cannot be a light unto other nations who denigrate their own.”
“Would it be too fantastical,” asks the Anglo-Jewish novelist Howard Jacobson, “to think of Jeremiah and Isaiah as forerunners of Malamud and Mailer?” After all, Jacobson writes, the prophecies delivered by such biblical figures “are not so much prognostications of trouble to come as scathing commentaries on the present: diatribes and lamentations that are terrible indeed.” Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, and other great Jewish writers of the mid-20th century certainly had a knack for producing “scathing commentaries on the present.” But where does that leave the Jewish writer of today, who faces a present with very different failings?
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How Hating Jews Brings Together Murderous Fanatics of All Stripes
Often with deadly results.
The Israeli Center-Left’s Crisis of Ideas
It knows what it opposes, but can rarely articulate what it supports.
The Prophetic Task of the Jewish Writer in the 21st Century
“They cannot be a light unto other nations who denigrate their own.”
A Teenager Discovers a 1,500-Year-Old Gold Bead in Jerusalem
“Something very, very special.”